Philosophy Quote by John Dewey — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.”

“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”

“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.”

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.”

“The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.”

“To be unable to take his enemies, his misfortunes and even his misdeeds seriously for long – that is the sign of strong, rounded natures with a superabundance of a power which is flexible, formative, healing and can make one forget...”

“...the only way to judge a philosophy is to examine the lives of those who live it.”

“What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tasted”

“A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…”

“To call yourself a “realistic” person is intensely arrogant and naïve.”

“The best ideas are common property”